Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Democrats, whose prime vote getter is U.S. Senator Edmund S. Muskie, a Catholic, exploited the issue for a while; e.g., Congressman Frank Coffin, a Baptist, upheld the defeated local-option school bus bill the day after announcing for Governor. But the harsh weapon of the boycott raised a cry of "intolerance" in the Bangor News and among Protestants, who make up 74.9% of Maine's population. Key Democrats decided that they must water down their school-bus proposal before their state convention opens April 22-featuring an invocation by a rabbi, prayer by a priest, benediction by a Congregational...
...took lyric flight: "Through the stormy night, battling in Stygian darkness across the thundering ocean, four simple Soviet lads bore aloft the torch of bravery. Soviet people are a special alloy!" One Russian correspondent breathlessly reported that not once during their ordeal had any of the four said a harsh word to another. Pravda could not resist contrasting this with the despair, terror, "fears and sorrowful prayers" left behind in the diary of the missing World War II U.S. bomber crew whose bodies were recently found in the Libyan desert...
...Continent, a movement to restrict capital punishment to serious crimes had been under way for decades, largely under the influence of the Italian reformer Cesare Beccaria, who argued that harsh punishments had a brutalizing effect upon society and thus bred crime instead of deterring it. But to the rulers of England, it seemed that capital punishment, even for offenses now considered petty, was necessary for the preservation of law and order. Cried Lord Ellenborough, Chief Justice of England, speaking in the House of Lords in 1810 against a bill to abolish the death penalty for shoplifting: "I am certain depredations...
...Perhaps we deserve more than our parents did because we have been more educated. As soon as they serve us, and we've finished eating, then we'll go across the street and start on the public library." As in Georgia, Mississippi and Virginia, which hastily passed harsh anti-trespassing laws after the outbreak of sit-ins, Alabama's response to new Negro tactics ultimately comes to heavy-handed justice and last-resort fire hoses. If Negroes should launch an economic boycott of downtown stores, along the lines of their successful boycott of segregated buses four years...
...satire can be harsh and effective; Author William (Of All Possible Worlds) Tenn hypothesized a U.S. where veneration of the average has reached a stage in which all brilliance is suppressed, so that a race of intelligent Newfoundland retrievers is able to take over the government and cross-breed humans for their stick-throwing abilities...